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How COVID-19 is Changing Digital Health

Dream It

Venture investors are hunkering down and supporting their existing portfolio because they want to make sure what they’ve already invested in is going to survive. However, if you’re already an incumbent at a large health system with a compelling Covid-19 use case, then you’re in a really good spot.

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Monzo Makes Money Work For Everyone

Y Combinator

Monzo’s culture of customer obsession allowed it to use the crisis to thoughtfully build a beloved consumer and SMB product that has changed personal finance in the UK. 2 Incumbent banks miss the mark in two crucial areas: The banking experience has not evolved to match modern consumer. This did not happen by magic. expectations.

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CoreWeave, a GPU-focused cloud compute provider, lands $221M investment

TechCrunch

The tranche, which values CoreWeave at $2 billion pre-money and brings the company’s total raised to $371 million, will be used to support CoreWeave’s U.S.-based ” It’s tough for any cloud provider to compete with the incumbents in the space — i.e., Google, Amazon and Microsoft. . billion and $26.28

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Data-driven iteration helped China’s Genki Forest become a $6B beverage giant in 5 years

TechCrunch

China’s e-commerce and industrial ecosystem is as different from the Western world as its culture. Incumbent giants therefore could lose a sizable chunk of market share if a company could just manage to weave together China’s manufacturing proficiency and agility with the modern tech startup philosophy of “moving fast and breaking stuff.”.

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B2FI: Demystifying Software Sales Into Financial Institutions

Andreessen Horowitz

In a significant cultural shift, the technology organizations inside these FIs have also started to recognize that not all of their tech products need to be built “in-house.” If you are working at an incumbent financial institution and interested in the bleeding edge of technology, we’d love to include you in our network.

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Cultivating a Practice of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Ecosystem Building Programs

Ecosystem Builder Hub

Cultivating a culture and practice of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) has become a core principle for entrepreneurial ecosystem builders. It is incumbent upon those of us working to build vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystems to put inclusion front and center, at the heart of everything we do. It’s not an afterthought.

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Bringing AI to the Masses

Andreessen Horowitz

Adam: If you’re a large model creator and you have tens of employees that you can allocate to building a consumer product, and you have the culture to do that, then you can go direct to consumer, and you can build a good product. You know, incumbents versus startups. Adam: Yeah. Adam: Yeah, I think it’s going to vary.